Ph.D. Program in Literary and Cultural Studies

A doctoral student must declare one Primary Area and one Secondary Area chosen from among the following:

With the approval of his or her Advisory Committee, a student in Literary and Cultural Studies may choose a Primary Area from the above list and then choose Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy as a Secondary Area. A student's Advisory Committee may also allow a student to choose a Primary Area from the above list, and to develop a Secondary Area in a discipline other than English (such as history, philosophy, art history, music history, etc.), with appropriate graduate level coursework in another department.

Required Course Distribution(3 credit hour courses)
One course in Literary Criticism and Theory
This course must be at the 5000 or 6000 level. It must be other than criticism courses taken for the M.A. If a Ph.D. student has not done the equivalent of our "Methods of Graduate Study" course at the M.A. level, then that course may be used to fulfill this requirement. No directed readings allowed.

Four courses in Primary Area
All these should be at the 5000 or 6000 level. Only one may be a directed reading.

Two courses in Secondary Area
At least one of these must be at the 5000 level. The other may be at the 4000 level. No directed readings allowed. One Secondary Area course may be substituted with a 5000 level course outside the Department, in a discipline closely related to the Primary or Secondary Area. Such a substitution needs Advisory Committee approval. If a student wishes to develop a Secondary Area in a discipline other than English, then the Advisory Committee may require him or her to take two 5000 level courses, as well as additional graduate courses, outside the Department.

Three courses, one each in three different Areas other than Primary and Secondary Areas
At least two of these must be at the 5000 level. The third may be at the 4000 level. One of these courses may be in Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy. No directed readings allowed. One of these courses may be substituted with a 5000 level course outside the Department, in a discipline closely related to the Primary or Secondary Area; in the case of a student with a Secondary Area in a discipline other than English, this substitution may be in that Secondary Area outside the Department. Such a substitution needs Advisory Committee approval.

Total Hours for Both Literary and Cultural Studies and Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Credit for Required Course Distribution: 30 hrs
Credit for C/R/L teaching course (if not received during M.A.): 3 hrs
Credit for Directed Readings for General Examination: 6 hrs
Credit for Dissertation Research for Dissertation Proposal: 3 hrs
Minimum credit for Doctoral Dissertation: 15 hrs (without C/R/L teaching course: 18 hrs)
Total credit for Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies or Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy: 57 hrs (beyond 33 hrs for M.A.; or 90 hrs beyond B.A.)

--Advising sheet for PhD students.

Literary and Cultural Studies
Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy

Area of Concentration | Ph.D. Advisement | Credit Hours
Foreign Language Requirement | Teaching Requirement
General Examination | Dissertation | Annual Evaluation
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